Archive for July, 2004

No unread items

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

In the past, when I got back from my annual offline vacation, my biggest problem was plowing through email and spam. This time, that wasn’t too bad, but the unread item count in Bloglines was a killer: 5250 unread items. A few hundred, certainly less than a thousand, were just things like stale weather reports, […]

Got a piece of it

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

Yet another plan for (comment) spam. Moderate URLs, moderate old moribund threads, and let moderated comments evaporate if they don’t get approved quickly enough.

Ah, sweet irony

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

A little gentle fisking of XML.com’s not-well-formed Atom feed, and a question: who’s actually in charge of Meerkat these days?